Of course Jonn was alive when he wrote the Book of Revelation.you are misreading the words of Irenaeus... Irenaeus wrote that St. John was alive well into the reign of Domitian, not that he received Revelation's Visions under Domitian
I think Tertullian wrote that St. John was exiled to Patmos by Nero, after being miraculously saved from execution, in such a dramatic manner that even Nero had to commute his sentence to labor
The majority of Bible Scholars say that John have written the Book of Revelation in 90 AD or 92 AD.
Those who say that John have written the Book of Revelation some years before 70 AD are biased [Preterist] and try to fit some parts of the Book of Revelation with 70 AD.
In case you have missed it:
What have happened in 70 AD was the fulfillment of the Time of Jacobs Trouble for the Jews prophezied by Jeremiah 30:4-7.
As well that the Part about the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple mentioned in Daniel 9:24-27
Jeremiah 30:4-7
And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah. For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
Daniel 9:26-27
26,...... and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and even unto the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
27 ,....and upon the wing of abominations [shall come] one that maketh desolate; and even unto the full end, and that determined, shall [wrath] be poured out upon the desolate.
God used the Roman Army [The People of the prince who shall come [Roman Emperor Titus] to punish the Jews for not having accepted Jesus The Messiah ....in the allowed time of 490 years ...70 Weeks [ 490 consequtive years no gap] are decreed upon thy people [The Jews][Daniel 9:24]....
Daniel 9:24-27
24 Seventy weeks [490 years]are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
25 Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the anointed one, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troublous times.
26 And after the threescore and two weeks shall the anointed one be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and even unto the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
27 And he shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease; and upon the wing of abominations [shall come] one that maketh desolate; and even unto the full end, and that determined, shall [wrath] be poured out upon the desolate.
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